Mark Word is a career quality starter — a pass rusher whose body of work places Word in the top half of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Word's career arc reflects exactly that kind of reliable professional-grade performance.
Season totals or exact team stints. Career totals count each season once.
| Season | Age | Team | G | GS | Defense | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tkl | Solo | Ast | TFL | QBHits | Sk | Dis | Int | PD | FF | FR | TD | Sfty | |||||
| 2002 | 26–27 | CLE | 10 | — | 20 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 8.0 | 18.0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 27–28 | CLE | 14 | — | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 |
| Career | — | 24 | — | 32 | 25 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 12.0 | 22.0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | — | 0 | 0 | |
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1999–2001: no recorded NFL regular-season production. StatVault's source covers these seasons in full, so this is an absence of production, not of data.
2 seasons · peak 5.3 in 2002
VAL (Value Above League) measures each NFL season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
0.5 career wins over 2 seasons · 1 win = 13.08 VAL
Best season · 2002 · +0.4 wins
Latest season · 2003 · +0.1 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NFL player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
#500 of 1,595 all-time pass rushers by KV-H
A strong starter career by KV-H: a remarkably steady profile that scores 58 of 100, era-normalized against sacks/g peers across 2 scored seasons, with a short career trimming the score.
Blend 72.8 × longevity 0.79 = KV-H 58· confidence 100%
Season-by-season quality (era-relative sacks/g)
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